June 14

"The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity."

Harriet Beecher Stowe
(06/14/1811 – 07/01/1896)
US writer

"The beauty of the past belongs to the past."

Margaret Bourke-White
(06/14/1904 – 08/27/1971)
US photojournalist

"Acceptance, under someone else's terms, is worse than rejection."

Mary Cassatt
(05/22/1844 – 06/14/1926)
US artist

"Silence is argument carried on by other means."

Che Guevara
(06/14/1928 – 10/09/1967)
Argentine revolutionary

"Ten thousand women marched through the streets of London saying 'we will not be dictated to,' and then went off to become stenographers."

G. K. Chesterton
(05/29/1874 – 06/14/1936)
English writer

"As long as you're going to be thinking anyway, think big."

Donald Trump
(06/14/1946 – )
US gazillionaire (was married to Marla Maples)

"Comparing Madonna with Marilyn Monroe is like comparing Raquel Welch with the back of a bus."

Boy George
(06/14/1961 – )
British singer

"This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time. With somebody else's card, of course!"

Yasmine Bleeth
(06/14/1968 – )
US actor, model

"The original is unfaithful to the translation."

Jorge Luis Borges
(08/24/1899 – 06/14/1986)
Argentine writer

"Coughing in the theatre is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism."

Alan Jay Lerner
(08/31/1918 – 06/14/1986)
US lyricist (songwriting partner of Frederick Loewe; was married to Nancy Olson, among others)

"I try to sit down and write a Rory Gallagher song, which generally happens to be quite bluesy. I try to find different issues, different themes and different topics that haven't been covered before...I've done songs in all the different styles...train blues, drinking blues, economic blues. But I try to find a slightly different angle on all these things. The music can be very traditional, but you can sort of creep into the future with the lyrics.."

Rory Gallagher
(03/02/1948 – 06/14/1995)
Irish guitarist